Do I want to be feared or loved? That's a good question. I want both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.

Children are very smart, in their own stupid way. A child's brain is like a sponge, and you know how smart sponges are.

Fool me once, strike one. But fool me twice ... strike three.

My maternal grandma was a tough, tough lady and a stern woman, who lost her husband young and raised six kids by herself. She lived in a mining community in Upstate New York and ran a boarding house for miners. She took care of an entire family and miners who lived in the house as well.

I don't know how other people perceive the lives of actors, but my life is fairly ordinary. I go to work, I come home, I put my kids to bed. If I'm home in time for dinner, I have dinner, and then it's bedtime.

If somebody takes the parking place you were waiting for, I tend to kind of let it roll off my back. Maybe I'm harboring a lot of something and it will all explode somewhere down the road, but I tend to just let it slide off my back.

Whenever I'm offered something, I always read the script and meet the director. I still appreciate just being considered.